The son of "The Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous early rock `n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

I know they're bones and Mr. Bopper doesn't need them anymore, but it still seems a little disrespectful to disturb his remains just to satisfy curiousity about something that really doesn't benefit anyone.

I know they're bones and Mr. Bopper doesn't need them anymore, but it still seems a little disrespectful to disturb his remains just to satisfy curiousity about something that really doesn't benefit anyone.

If it puts someone's mind at rest that his father, whom he'd never met, died instantly then it has benefitted someone.